The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 50
Iron moved not, but timidly answered, “I dare not leave my hiding-places; for Fire, my brother, waits to devour me.
Who acts: Iron, I, Fire · What happens: not move, answer, leave, wait, devour · To what, where: hiding places, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wicked Hornet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iron, I, Fire), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 moved | nsubj |
| 2 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 moved | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 answered | cc |
| 6 | timidly | timidly | ADV | _ | 7 answered | advmod |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 moved | parataxis |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 leave | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 leave | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 leave | nsubj |
| 11 | dare | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 leave | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 dare | advmod |
| 13 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 answered | conj |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 places | nmod:poss |
| 15 | hiding | hiding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 places | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 hiding | punct |
| 17 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 leave | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 Fire | punct |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 Fire | case |
| 20 | Fire | Fire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 waits | nsubj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 brother | punct |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 brother | nmod:poss |
| 23 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Fire | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 waits | punct |
| 25 | waits | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 moved | parataxis |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 devour | mark |
| 27 | devour | devour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 waits | xcomp |
| 28 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 devour | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 moved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not move | past | Iron | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | timidly property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | leave in a quote | present | I | my hiding places | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | ||||
| 4 | wait in a quote | present | Fire and my brother | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | devour in a quote | to-infinitive | Fire and my brother not said here | me | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 66819 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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